They spent alot of effort into making it fit in and clearly wasnt a last 5 minute ditch attempt.

All of the endings in Mass Effect 3 where touched upon somewhere in the games. Not everything was a main plot, or secondary plot. Nor does it need to be. Even Synthesis was touched upon by Edi in one of her conversations in Mass effect 3. It was something that Liara and her were discussing about how if there was enough energy could matter be changed into something else.

The endings were hardly a last 5 minute ditch attempt. They just weren't what everyone was expecting or wanting. Mass effect 3 was exceptional on all fronts. Combat, Multiplayer, Story, Music, Graphics and anything else. But the problem with choose your own adveturer games and anything Bioware has made is that it is still with in the confines of what Bioware wants.

"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."

All of the endings in Mass Effect 3 where touched upon somewhere in the games. Not everything was a main plot, or secondary plot. Nor does it need to be. Even Synthesis was touched upon by Edi in one of her conversations in Mass effect 3. It was something that Liara and her were discussing about how if there was enough energy could matter be changed into something else.

The endings were hardly a last 5 minute ditch attempt. They just weren't what everyone was expecting or wanting. Mass effect 3 was exceptional on all fronts. Combat, Multiplayer, Story, Music, Graphics and anything else. But the problem with choose your own adveturer games and anything Bioware has made is that it is still with in the confines of what Bioware wants.

They didnt really, and it fits in less the more you play it, you have a couple of times where you speak to reapers(Harbinger, sovereign, rannoch reaper) and they never actually come out and say the whole synthetics versus organics thing, the closest they actually say is Order Versus chaos, they actually mostly say " you cant comprehend" yet there is the catalyst sitting waiting with an explanation for you, that you can comprehend.

The catalyst/starkid/VI is never foreshadowed throughout the whole series,(until you buy the leviathan DLC that wasn't even planned before release), theres alot of things about the games that dont make sense in the context of events that happen, the whole storyline of 2, why would they go through the motions of making a human reaper when their whole reaper army can be in the galaxy 6 months later.

Why were they fixated in shepard for the whole of 2 and then not interested at all in 3?

Why did sovereign go through the whole ordeal revealing the reapers existence in the first one by bringing the reapers to the galaxy via the citadel, when the reapers can just come to the galaxy 2 and a half years later anyway?

Its clear that theres just so much uneven planning in the whole series, they dont even seem to have a consistent storyline they followed through the whole 3, thats how they ended up with an ending that just didnt "fit".